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brow of the high and steep hill on which the ^^^^' 
church belonging to the present village is now ' — /— ^ 
situate'. From the scattered marbles, described 
by him as its remains, we obtained a small bas- 
relief, now in the Collection at Cambridge, repre- 
senting two persons, one of whom is in the 
military garb of the Antients, and the other in 
-the civic habit, addressing a Figure of Mmen;a ". 
Over the head of the Goddess is the word 
AOHNA. 
Homer does not mention either the Promontory 
of Sigeum or of Rhceteum : indeed, the latter can 
hardly be called a promontory. These names 
rather referred to cities, which were built after 
the time of Homer. The tivo promontories, one on 
either side of the Grecian fleet, as it was stationed 
to the east of the Mouth of the Scamander, were 
two necks of land, whose distance might well 
admit of the possibility of Agamemnon s voice, 
when he called from the centremost ship, being 
heard to the two extremities '. The objection there- 
fore, which, with reference to this circumstance, 
was urged against the distance of Sigeum from 
Rhoeteum, is superseded. Whenever the account 
given by an antient author is irreconcileable with 
(1) Travels in Asia Minor. 
(2) See "Greek Marbles," No.XXIX. p. 51. (3) Iliad O. 222. 
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